Phoniest Quotes & Sayings

Socrates defines his life's mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive. — Arianna Huffington

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. — Victor Papanek

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord. — Howard G. Hendricks

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient. — Mason Cooley

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country ... with hope and delight. — Louis Auchincloss

I heard someone else in the hallway with her speaking, but there voice was so low I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. — Cynthia Tart

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself. — David Hawkins

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. — Barnett Newman